The pugnacious former mayor of NY - once touted as a potential president himself - is rapidly emerging as much as a key political strategist as Trump's top legal representative, with a brief expanding far beyond the taxing task of keeping the various investigations as far away from the White House as possible.

The lead defendant for the woman, Steve Rossi, told CNN that he had never worked with Giuliani before and that the former New York City mayor was involved in the case because he knew the woman and family.

Giuliani made the slur about Stormy Daniels' lawyer during an interview with Business Insider, responding to Avenatti's request this week to have an on-air discussion about his client's defamation suit against President Donald Trump. Trump had previously denied knowing about the payment. In addition, Giuliani was aware Cohen is already negotiating a potential plea bargain deal with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and special counsel Robert Mueller. But he added, Giuliani now recognizes that the new task is "all consuming" and "lasting longer than initially anticipated".

Some legal analysts suspect Giuliani's fingerprints are to be found in the recent "49 questions" leak to the New York Times about what the special counsel wants to ask the president.

Those companies paid Cohen more than $1.2 million through Essential Consultants LLC, a shell company he set up to facilitate a $130,000 hush-money payment to Daniels, who says she had an affair with Trump in 2006.

Shortly after his role on Trump's team was announced in late April, Giuliani told CNN that he would be able to wrap up his efforts on the Mueller investigation in as quickly as "a couple of weeks".

Some have speculated the departure is due to more than just the Mueller probe. Since Giuliani joined Trump's legal team, he and the president have altered their story about the payment and its timing. In the past McGahn was credited with foiling POTUS's plan to fire Mueller and also attorney general Jeff Sessions, by threatening to resign himself in protest.

"That was money that was paid by his lawyer, the way I would do, out of his law firm funds", Giuliani said.

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